TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence

We have developed the program TwinCons, to detect noisy signals of deep ancestry of proteins or nucleic acids. As input, the program uses a composite alignment containing pre-defined groups, and mathematically determines a ‘cost’ of transforming one group to the other at each position of the alignme...

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Autores principales:	Petar I. Penev, Claudia Alvarez-Carreño, Eric Smith, Anton S. Petrov, Loren Dean Williams
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e964b131d31148a489815dceb4e205302021-11-18T05:49:17ZTwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence1553-734X1553-7358https://doaj.org/article/e964b131d31148a489815dceb4e205302021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580257/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-734Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358We have developed the program TwinCons, to detect noisy signals of deep ancestry of proteins or nucleic acids. As input, the program uses a composite alignment containing pre-defined groups, and mathematically determines a ‘cost’ of transforming one group to the other at each position of the alignment. The output distinguishes conserved, variable and signature positions. A signature is conserved within groups but differs between groups. The method automatically detects continuous characteristic stretches (segments) within alignments. TwinCons provides a convenient representation of conserved, variable and signature positions as a single score, enabling the structural mapping and visualization of these characteristics. Structure is more conserved than sequence. TwinCons highlights alternative sequences of conserved structures. Using TwinCons, we detected highly similar segments between proteins from the translation and transcription systems. TwinCons detects conserved residues within regions of high functional importance for the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and demonstrates that signatures are not confined to specific regions but are distributed across the rRNA structure. The ability to evaluate both nucleic acid and protein alignments allows TwinCons to be used in combined sequence and structural analysis of signatures and conservation in rRNA and in ribosomal proteins (rProteins). TwinCons detects a strong sequence conservation signal between bacterial and archaeal rProteins related by circular permutation. This conserved sequence is structurally colocalized with conserved rRNA, indicated by TwinCons scores of rRNA alignments of bacterial and archaeal groups. This combined analysis revealed deep co-evolution of rRNA and rProtein buried within the deepest branching points in the tree of life. Author summary All species on Earth can be thought of as leaves on the Tree of Life, which are connected by branches representing their ancestral relationships. Biopolymers are evolutionary markers within species, that contain records of evolutionary history. Excavation of molecular evolutionary histories involves collecting sequences from extant species and organizing them into multiple sequence alignments. For the purpose of comparison, the sequences within an alignment can be partitioned into two groups, resulting in a composite alignment. We have developed the program TwinCons, to detect noisy signals of deep ancestry. TwinCons distinguishes conserved, variable and signature positions between the groups of the composite alignment. A signature is a position conserved within each group but differing between groups. TwinCons can further be used to detect uninterrupted ranges of positions (segments) preserved within the composite alignment. TwinCons results can be mapped onto structures of molecules. TwinCons scores can be applied to either proteins or ribonucleic acids (RNA). Using TwinCons we detected highly similar segments across ancient and essential protein components of living cells (translation and transcription) and pinpointed the deepest signatures between bacterial and archaeal RNAs within the ribosome.Petar I. PenevClaudia Alvarez-CarreñoEric SmithAnton S. PetrovLoren Dean WilliamsPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 10 (2021)
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description	We have developed the program TwinCons, to detect noisy signals of deep ancestry of proteins or nucleic acids. As input, the program uses a composite alignment containing pre-defined groups, and mathematically determines a ‘cost’ of transforming one group to the other at each position of the alignment. The output distinguishes conserved, variable and signature positions. A signature is conserved within groups but differs between groups. The method automatically detects continuous characteristic stretches (segments) within alignments. TwinCons provides a convenient representation of conserved, variable and signature positions as a single score, enabling the structural mapping and visualization of these characteristics. Structure is more conserved than sequence. TwinCons highlights alternative sequences of conserved structures. Using TwinCons, we detected highly similar segments between proteins from the translation and transcription systems. TwinCons detects conserved residues within regions of high functional importance for the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and demonstrates that signatures are not confined to specific regions but are distributed across the rRNA structure. The ability to evaluate both nucleic acid and protein alignments allows TwinCons to be used in combined sequence and structural analysis of signatures and conservation in rRNA and in ribosomal proteins (rProteins). TwinCons detects a strong sequence conservation signal between bacterial and archaeal rProteins related by circular permutation. This conserved sequence is structurally colocalized with conserved rRNA, indicated by TwinCons scores of rRNA alignments of bacterial and archaeal groups. This combined analysis revealed deep co-evolution of rRNA and rProtein buried within the deepest branching points in the tree of life. Author summary All species on Earth can be thought of as leaves on the Tree of Life, which are connected by branches representing their ancestral relationships. Biopolymers are evolutionary markers within species, that contain records of evolutionary history. Excavation of molecular evolutionary histories involves collecting sequences from extant species and organizing them into multiple sequence alignments. For the purpose of comparison, the sequences within an alignment can be partitioned into two groups, resulting in a composite alignment. We have developed the program TwinCons, to detect noisy signals of deep ancestry. TwinCons distinguishes conserved, variable and signature positions between the groups of the composite alignment. A signature is a position conserved within each group but differing between groups. TwinCons can further be used to detect uninterrupted ranges of positions (segments) preserved within the composite alignment. TwinCons results can be mapped onto structures of molecules. TwinCons scores can be applied to either proteins or ribonucleic acids (RNA). Using TwinCons we detected highly similar segments across ancient and essential protein components of living cells (translation and transcription) and pinpointed the deepest signatures between bacterial and archaeal RNAs within the ribosome.
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author	Petar I. Penev Claudia Alvarez-Carreño Eric Smith Anton S. Petrov Loren Dean Williams
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title	TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence
title_short	TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence
title_full	TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence
title_fullStr	TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence
title_full_unstemmed	TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence
title_sort	twincons: conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/e964b131d31148a489815dceb4e20530
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TwinCons: Conservation score for uncovering deep sequence similarity and divergence

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